Month: August 2005

Right You Are Ken

Watched a couple of episodes of MXC today, can’t believe that show actually exists. It would never get produced in the US, thank heaven for those wacky Japanese.

Speaking of wacky Japanese, my bumper sticker from CafePress arrived last night. The maroon color was nowhere near the car color, so I used an xacto knife and cut out the kanji letters and stuck them on the front small section of the side sills, one set on each side. From my limited (read none) understanding of Japanese kanji one simple character stands for emperor, but it is mostly used to mean the Emperor of Japan. The second symbol represents sovereign, so the combination means sovereign emperor, or The Emperor. Now that I’ve gone to all the trouble I’m not sure it is going to stay on the car. The tan is a tad too bright for the basically dark sided automobile. I may remake the sticker with black characters which should be a little more subtle. I’ll have to get a picture of the car with the tan letters on there first, so I can add it to my Hall of Shame along with the Japanese license plate.

Flan: “It’s in the can.”
Vic: “Next is Flan Peters. He developed the aromatherapy product ‘Zoo in a Can’.”
Kenny: “Yeah, I’ve got ‘Monkey Enclosure’.”
Vic: “Good for you and it looks like he’s got a pretty good run going.”
Kenny: “He’s into a full San Quentin.” (Flan is straddling two timbers with his butt in the air)
Vic: “Right you are. Oh he’s stepping up there … Oh. There he’s into a defrocked bishop. (Flan is straddling two timbers with his butt in the air again.) And I think he might be trying for a dirty nurse. Yes. Oh he can’t quite pull it off.”
Kenny: “Not everyone can do a dirty nurse.”
Vic: “Right you are Ken. And… Flan cannot. It’s over for him.”

Started down, still down.
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Forced Night Off

Almost.

When I got home from work there was no new email at any of the mr-miata.net accounts. Strange. Especially seeing as I had sent an email from work to one of them. Clicked on Send and Receive All in OE and got nothing. Checked for this web page, 404. Tried to connect via FTP, couldn’t find site. Checked the web host’s forum for a maintenance update announcement, their site was 404 too. Not good. Checked the web host’s parent site (he is just a reseller) and it was alive, at least that is a good sign.

I hope this wasn’t a repeat of my ThatHostingCompany fiasco. After they disappeared with mastersmiataclub.com I swore I would never let the web host register the domain name for me, but here I was again, seduced by the low cost, right in the same pickle again. Wait a minute, that reminds me, a fellow THC exile is also using the same host (ssWebHost.com) maybe I’ll check his site. It appears fine. That’s strange, maybe it is a random hard drive crash and I’m on the wrong platter.

I don’t know how long I was down, last time I looked was last night, but mr-miata.net was back online at around 9:30 tonight. First thing I did was do a back up of the “Life of Brian.” I was long overdue, last one was March.

Started up, went down, still down.
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FRS Have The Night Off

So I’m going to too.

Started up, went down, went up, back down, back up, still up.
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As The Cholesterol Varies

On the previous episode of As The Cholesterol Varies Brian’s good cholesterol was lower and his triglycerides were elevated. In today’s episode, as you can see from the chart below, we make an improvement in one and took a step back in another. Plus, sigh, the bad cholesterol is now slightly back over the limit. If you compare the current numbers to the January 10th ones, you can see they are pretty much the same. The Jaunary numbers were the result of 3 months of taking just the inexpensive dietary supplement Red Yeast Rice. I sense that the doctor is not exactly sure what to try next, so we play watchful waiting, keep taking Tricor and come back in 4 months…tune in again in December for the next exciting installment.

  Chol HDL LDL Trig
Goal <200 >40 <100 30-150
09/21/04 209 24 131 271
01/10/05 176 33 110 167
05/06/05 174 27 108 194
06/17/05 164 31 85 238
07/28/05 177 30 113 169

Started down, went up, still up.
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Friday Is Hawaiian Shirt Day

Couple months ago while shopping at Goody’s I found some Hawaiian shirts on sale for $14. Thought what the heck, so I bought one. The following Friday was one of our half days and I wore it in. It was very comfy and it fits into the whole casual Friday mood. Plus I actually got some compliments on the shirt, both male and female. So I went back to Goody’s the next week and bought 2 more. Now every Friday is Hawaiian shirt day.

Trouble is, now that I think I’d like a couple more, the clothing stores have been swept clean of anything resembling summer wear in favor of fall stuff (even though the average high here will be above 85 degrees until late September) so I’m out of luck. I guess there is always the internet…

Maybe for “winter” I should switch to a shirt that is something like the Hawaiian shirt, cut the same and meant to be left untucked, something like a bowling shirt maybe.

Started down, went up, went down, back up, back down, still down.
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Lookee What I Found!

Went rollerblading tonight and when I finished up, I decided that the wheels needed rotating on my skates. While digging around in the cabinet in the garage looking for the wheel tool I discovered a pristine Bicycle Tube Repair Kit. The rubber cement hasn’t even been opened. I could have fixed the tire Saturday night. Doh!

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And On The 7th Day…

Didn’t get a patch kit, so bicycling this morning was out. Couldn’t get motivated enough to commit to a hike. What we did do is our weekly grocery shopping after a gourmet breakfast of Hardee’s Biscuit ‘n’ Gravy (530 cal – 34g fat – 8g sat – 10mg chol – 1550mg sodium.) Turns out we wouldn’t have gone away because we got a morning shower that started as we were pulling into Hardee’s.

Hated getting caught in the rain after just washing the car yesterday, but hey, precipitation happens. In what I think may be a sign of sickness, when we got home from the store I went out in the garage and dried the car off hoping to keep that just washed freshness.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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